"...Pufferfish Whale?"
Fang Mo seemed somewhat surprised by Toriko's suggestion.
"Yeah."
Toriko looked inexplicably eager as he swallowed reflexively. "They say Pufferfish Whales only return to that shoal once every ten years to spawn. They're dream fish known as deep-sea delicacies... Fang Mo, let's go capture some together!"
"Hmm..."
Unlike Toriko, Fang Mo fell into deep thought.
The Pufferfish Whale arc had existed in the original story as well, and its timing was almost identical. It was Toriko's third adventure after capturing the Gala Crocodile and Rainbow Fruit.
But the problem was...
Wasn't the plot progressing way too fast?
Fang Mo had used the Age Book to arrive at the Baron Islands, where he met Toriko and Komatsu. They had done nothing but feast on the island all night, and the next day, he had returned with Komatsu to the hotel where Komatsu worked.
Then that very night, Toriko said he was going to pick Rainbow Fruit.
After picking it, they hurried back to cook it. Toriko had only just settled on the dessert for one item of his Full Course Menu, and now he had come running over to say they were going to capture Pufferfish Whales.
In other words, Fang Mo had been here for at most three days.
Not only had the first two arcs already ended, but the third adventure was about to begin too?
If Fang Mo remembered correctly, in the original story, Komatsu had spent an entire week resting due to muscle fatigue just from the Rainbow Fruit arc.
"Did I cause some kind of butterfly effect?"
Rubbing his chin thoughtfully, Fang Mo muttered in a very low voice, "That shouldn't be it. I followed the plotline strictly. At most, I mass-produced a few hundred nearly extinct Rainbow Fruits for IGO, then replaced the